The Guardian has identified a trainee nurse and reported US air force reservist called Bailey Ross as the proprietor of a white nationalist publisher in South Dakota.

Ross was also a paid-up member of a white nationalist organization that marched at Charlottesville while enlisted in the United States Coast Guard.

Ross’s company, Agartha Publishing, is part of a wave of extremist publishers using mainstream e-commerce platforms such as Amazon to sell lavishly repackaged fascist and anti-communist books.

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    Of course. The only better occupation to learn to be a good fascist than the military is the police.

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      So Amazon allows nazi to publish on their platform. This should be the news article and nationwide. Also any book binding company should be held accountable.

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        I could see boycotting publishers but I don’t think the book binders review content on the print on demand, and that seems like a pretty big new ask for them.

        Everyone already knows the ways that Amazon sucks, somehow I doubt that one niche publisher selling on there is going to make a difference.

        I am also not sure what you mean by “held accountable”. I don’t think they are breaking any laws in the publishing aspect.

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        The armed forces and police are lousy with racists and fascists. There is a culture in both professions of protecting racists and fascists from accountability.